Wildlife

May 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit announced April

15 that Georgia Pacific, the largest U.S. forest products com-

pany, has agreed to leave at least 10 acres of woods standing

around each colony of endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers

found on company land in Arkansas, the Carolinas, Louisiana,

and Mississippi. The deal protects 50,000 acres while allowing

Georgia Pacific to log the remainder of its 4.2 million acres of

southern timber.

The World Wildlife Fund has agreed to hire mem-

bers of the impoverished Hoopa tribe in northern California to

restore logged-out forests and eroded stream beds. The Pacific

Gas & Electric Co. has already provided 30,000 trees to the pro-

ject, which is expected to benefit bald eagles, peregrine fal-

cons, and northern spotted owls.

Bill to stop wolf-strafing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

WASHINGTON D.C.––As he

promised he would last winter, Oregon Rep.

Peter DeFazio has introduced amendments to

the Airborne Hunting section of the Fish and

Wildlife Act of 1956 that would bar using

aircraft to kill native endangered or threat-

ened species on public lands––even for

wildlife management purposes. Support for

the bill, H.R. 1391, may be addressed to any

member of the House or Senate.

Rabies Update

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

New Jersey Department of Health veterinarian Colin T. Campbell told a region-

al conference on rabies held March 24 in Syracuse, New York, that the state of New Jersey

has allocated only $55,000 of the estimated $160,000 necessary to complete a two-year field

trial of the long-awaited Wistar orally administered raccoon rabies vaccine on the Cape May

peninsula. The state Department of Environmental Protection and Energy is seeking grants to

make up the balance. The vaccine is embedded in bait balls; raccoons who take the bait

vaccinate themselves. The bait balls are being air-dropped in batches of 20,000 at a time,

directed at the probable corridors of raccoon movement from the vicinity of the nearest

known rabies cases, which are presently about eight miles away. About 145,000 bait balls

will be dropped in total if the project is successfully completed.

ANIMAL HEALTH

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

Massachusetts SPCA veterinari-

ans Michael G. Aronsohn and Alicia M.

Faggella recently published protocols for

anesthetizing and neutering 6-to-14-week-

old kittens in the Journal of the American

Veterinary Medical Association, vol. 202,

#1, pp. 53-62.

The USDA announced April 1

that from now on it will require environ-

mental impact statements filed in connec-

tion with animal disease eradication activi-

ties to include identification of any pesti-

cides that might be used; any chemicals

used for sanitation; and a protocol for dis-

posing of carcasses and contaminated

manure and debris.

Aerial survey of Alaska finds few wolves–– and too many moose for habitat

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska––Predictions

that wolves and grizzly bears would devastate

Alaskan moose and caribou over the winter were

“a gross exaggeration,” world-renowned

wildlife expert Gordon Haber told media April

26. Thus there is no need for predator control,

contrary to the claims of the Alaska Board of

Game, which suspended a proposed aerial wolf

massacre in January under threat of an interna-

tional tourism boycott, but is expected to re-rec-

commend killing wolves and grizzlies to protect

the ungulates, prized by trophy hunters, at

meetings scheduled for July and October.

To verify their data, Haber and bush

pilot Buck Woods overflew 35,000 square miles

of interior and south-central Alaska between

April 3 and April 18, adding 87 hours of air

time to their combined total of more than 5,000

hours of aerial surveying and more than 10,000

hours of wolf observation. Haber is a 27-year

veteran of wolf research in Alaska, British

Columbia, and northern Michigan.

BOOKS: Wildlife Protectors Handbook: How You Can Help Stop The Destruction of Wild Animals and Their Habitat

April 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

Wildlife Protectors Handbook: How

You Can Help Stop The Destruction of

Wild Animals and Their Habitat, by

Donald Heintzelman, Capra Press (P.O. Box 2068,

Santa Barbara, CA 93120), 1992, 160 pages, $9.95

paper.

This handy guide to wildlife issues is the most

concise and practical review of this complex topic to date.

Donald Heintzelman, president of the Wildlife Information

Center, pulls no punches, whether he’s describing human

influences on wildlife population or the efficacy of efforts

to protect wild animals.

Making a home for magical migrating monarchs by Nicole Kraft

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

There once was a time when millions of monarch

butterflies dotted the skies each fall, the eastern band

migrating south to Mexico and the western population fly-

ing to the coastal regions of central California. That was a

time before development ruined much monarch habitat,

leaving them struggling to find the safe haven of a milk-

weed field in which to lay the eggs of their next generation.

Judith Levicoff, a habitat educator in Jenkintown,

Pennsylvania, has worked for the past two years in class-

rooms throughout the Delaware Valley to help children

restore monarch numbers, by creating their own butterfly

gardens, and by raising and releasing their own butterflies.

Marine Mammal Bills

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

WASHINGTON D.C. ––

Rep. Michael Bilirakis (R-Fla.) and 19

co-sponsors have introduced a bill to

restrict dolphin exports, institute an

identification and tracking system,

limit lethal research on marine mam-

mals, and impose a moratorium on cap-

tures pending a review and revision of

care standards. If the bill, H.R. 656,

wins sufficient Congressional support,

language from it may be incorporated

into the Marine Mammal Protection

Act, which is up for renewal this year.

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

Humane Enforcement

Miami primate trafficker

Matthew Block abruptly withdrew his

guilty plea March 16 in connection with

arranging the 1990 Bangkok Six orang-

utan smuggling incident, in which three

orangutans of a shipment of six died en

route from Borneo to Yugoslavia. The

shipment was intercepted in Thailand.

Block pulled out, apparently, because of

the likelihood he would draw jail time.

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